Title: Blue pt 6

Rating: Teens for some swearing

Archive: SJD yes, just ask if you want to!

Spoilers: Everything up to season 8

Season: After season 8, the four still are SG-1

Summary: The govt puts pressure on the SGC to find more ancient information, and the team must deal with the fallout. S&J

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Sam was eight years old the first time a boy kissed her. Jordan Scheiss tasted like sugar and sunshine. To this day, she never though the Fourth of July neighborhood picnic kisses in the shade could be topped. Much to her shock, the briefest touch of lips with Jack O'Neill was so much better.

Walking towards the village was thankfully uneventful. Daniel was too busy running around and trying to document everything he could. However, not much got past Teal'c. Sam walked past him, and patted him on the arm with a smile, to find Daniel.

"O'Neill. Major Carter seems well," Teal'c greeted Jack as he walked over.

"Indeed," he replied warily, looking at Teal'c out of the corner of his eye.

"See is very lucky you managed to get out of your bonds so quickly."

"Yeah…." What was he playing at, Jack wondered.

"And she is also very lucky you tried to resuscitate her."

"What? Teal'c, I didn't. It was that Cactus guy that saved her," he said.

"True. But I do not think she enjoyed his way as much." With the raise of an eyebrow and a smirk, Teal'c was gone. Jack narrowed his eyes at the large man's retreating back.

Daniel was thrilled. So often the find more of ancient Egyptian culture when it comes to finding the Gou'uld. They've found Middle Aged England, Nordic and slaved people on many other planets. But this is only the second planet they found a Native American culture on. But it was much different than the Salish people. Caucus was without doubt the leader, but there seemed to be no other real hierarchy.

Like on Earth, the men were the hunters and protectors, and the women would gather or grow the food, and watch the children. But there seemed to be no second in command, no on who was in charge when Caucus was gone. And Daniel was a bit confused about that; how did the village function without him? Maybe it was a type of honor system or token economy, he though.

He decided to video tape the native people to study the video later, and enjoy the presence now. They wore coverings typical to the Native Americans of North America. It wasn't cold out, so no one was wearing heavier animal skins yet, but the other clothing was made out of it. The women wore braids in their hair to keep it out of their face. A few men who were in the village were walking with farming and building tools tied on their belts. Kids were running and playing, and Daniel happily dodged their games on more than one occasion. But something caught Daniel's eye in the corner of the viewer in the video camera.

Caucus was standing inside a hut with his weapon raised. Directing the camera towards him, Daniel got a better shot. The bulb turned a dark, hostile blue before a beam of light was emitted on the man standing in front of him. Caucus was talking to the man at the same time, and he nodded back to his leader before Caucus would turn the weapon away.

"What the heck," he muttered to himself. He turned off his camera head towards his direction.

"Hey Daniel, what's up?" Daniel spun hard on his heel.

"Sam. Hi! How are you feeling?" he asked worriedly.

"Oh better. Whatever Caucus did seems to have worked." Daniel looked down, deep in thought, and scrunched his eyebrows together as he adjusted his glasses. Sam knew this look.

"Daniel, what is it?" she asked quietly and scanning the surroundings. Ever the soldier, she couldn't help but put the safety of the team first, regardless of how silly she looked doing it.

"I don't know if this is worth anything, but does anything seem to be off with this place?" he asked while looked up at her from his lowered head out of the corner of his eye.

"Other than the fact that we're now in a village with the people who tried to kill us and they're leaving us alone?"

"Right. This all just seems too odd to me. There's no hierarchy system here. No one seems able to take initiative. Either that or they would rather Caucus tell them what to do. And, right before you got here, I saw him using that bulb weapon on a man from the village."

"Really? Did he, you know, blow him up or something?" Sam's eyes widened at the thought.

"No, no no no. The bulb at the bottom that seems to activate the weapon turned a different color than when they were using it against us."

"What do you think he was trying to do?" She was starting to get suspicious.

"I don't know. But I'm going to talk to him about it."

"Alright. I'll talk to the Colonel and Teal'c and we'll take a look around, see if we can find anything out. Radio us after."

With a nod to each other, they went their separate ways. Daniel passed the villager walking out of the tent as he walked towards it. Lifting the flap-door way, he announced himself.

"Caucus, can I talk to you?"

"Colonel," Sam greeted him as she walked over.

"Carter," he answered back. They both nodded slowly for a second, not knowing where to go next. Why does it always have to be so awkward between them?

"So! How's Daniel?" he offered.

"Good! Good. Actually, sir, Daniel thinks there's something off with this place." He was glad she took the bait. He hated small talk.

"Off."

"Yeah. Well, sir, I think it's strange that we're walking freely in a village full of people who only a half hour ago tried to kill us."

"Yeah, I agree. So you're Spidey-Sense is tingling too?"

"Is yours?" she countered.

"A bit. Cactus seems different," he offered.

"O'Neill, I believe I found something in a cave about three hundred feet to your south." Teal'c was nothing if not specific. As a commander, you gotta love it.

"Carter's with me. We'll be right there."

"I wonder what's there."

"Let's go find out."

The pair headed towards Teal'c position in the cave. Luckily, the cave entrance was easy to see and they didn't have to search for it. That would've meant more possibly awkward time together. Walking into the cave, Jack turned on his flashlight when the natural light failed.

"Teal'c," he called.

"Over here." They walked over to Teal'c who was shinning his light on cave paintings on one side of the cave.

"What brought you this far into the cave?" Jack asked pointedly, while Teal'c only looked over at him with his 'I'll ignore that' look.

"Look at these paintings. I'm no anthropologist, but these paintings look like there was a large scale fight or war here a while ago," Carter forged ahead and sided with Teal'c.

"Oh, I don't know Carter, I remember one time you had to wear that nice blue dress," Jack joke. This time, he received Teal'c's look from Sam.

"I agree, Major Carter. In this area of the painting, it appears that there was a usurper of power who tried to take over the village."

"Right, and it looks like this is the battle," Sam added and pointed further down past Teal'c. Standing next to Teal'c she came up to his shoulder. Jack always found that hilraious.

"Who won?" Jack asked.

"I do not know."

"Me neither. I don't want to read this wrong. This is more of Daniel's area. He should take a look at this. Did you find any writing Teal'c?"

"I did. It is on the bottom of the mural, towards the ground."

"Ok, so this is a Daniel job. We'll have him take a look at this when he gets here."

"I wonder how his conversation is going with Caucus," Sam said.

"What is he talking to him about?" Teal'c asked.

"Hey, where are you guys?" Daniel's voice came over the radio. Jack turned himself to tell Daniel and let Sam explain.

"I tend to agree. I do not like how these people go unpunished for nearly killing you, Major Carter."

"Daniel's on his way. He was headed this direction anyways."

"Hello…" they heard down a ways.

"Keep coming Daniel."

"Hey, what are you guys looking at?" he asked once he came in view.

"There are these cave paintings that we think are important to the history here. How was the talk?" Sam asked.

"Oh yeah! No, that was nothing," Daniel tried to blow her off.

"What do you mean nothing? I thought you said you had a bad feeling about this place?" After all their years together, Jack trusted his team's feelings of impending badness and unfunness.

"I did. Caucus said that one of the villagers thought we were trying to take over and convinced the rest of them to attack us." He tried to blow off their questions while looking at the paintings.

"That doesn't make sense Daniel. You said that there was no type of hierarchy here other than Caucus," she pointed out.

"Well I was wrong, wasn't I!" he thundered back. Sam was visually taken back by her calm friend's outburst.

"Easy there cowboy, nothing to get defensive about."

"He's right Daniel. Just take it easy. We just want to know how the conversation went," Sam added.

"That's right Sam, side with Jack. That's what you always do."

"Come and look at these writings, Daniel Jackson. I believe they are of importance." Teal'c interrupted the looming argument.

Daniel gave Sam and Jack both another sharp look before going by Teal'c. With wide eyes, Sam looked at her commanding officer for an answer. He nodded his head and pointed his head to the left, saying he wanted to talk to her. Slowly, she walked away.

"What was that about?" she asked quietly.

"I don't know, but I think Cactus has something to do with it." She raised her eyebrow at him. One of these days, he would get someone's name right.

"I think so to. Daniel said that Caucus used that weapon on one of the villagers but the bulb on the end was a different color than usual."

"Let's just keep an eye on the both. I don't like this situation." Sam nodded. She couldn't help the twisting in her gut telling her something was horribly wrong.

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